Boris Johnson launched his Brexit campaign with a speech at a warehouse in Kent. Afterwards he mingled with his audience. “Thank you for coming!” he boomed at one woman. “We have to come,” she explained gently. “We work here.”

9 A Rose by any other name

Lord Rose’s chairmanship of the In campaign was beset with difficulties – not least his inability to remember its name. He told an interviewer that it was “Stay in Britain”, then “Better in Britain”, then “Better Stay in Britain”. It was Britain Stronger in Europe.

Lord Rose forgets who he works for

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8 Down with the kids

In a bid to win the youth vote, David Cameron told students in Exeter that he always watches Glastonbury on TV “in front of a warm fire”. Glastonbury is held in June. (Admittedly, though, it’s pretty cold right now, so maybe he has the right idea.)

7 Mr Bump

Mr Cameron’s efforts to impress the young took a further blow when a boy at a rally tried to greet him with a fist-bump. The Prime Minister gave a bewildered smile and patted him on the knuckles.

Live on TV, Michael Gove announced that John Barnes was backing Brexit. This was news to the ex-footballer, who rang in to protest that he was backing Remain. In tribute, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron filmed himself performing Barnes’s rap from the 1990 England World Cup song World in Motion. “Catch me if you can, cos I’m an England man,” spat Mr Farron, “and what you’re looking at is the masterplan…” (Well, either that or a 46-year-old Lib Dem from Cumbria rapping on a bus.)

The Leave.EU campaign attempted to drum up support by organising a big Brexit pop concert in Birmingham, boasting such stars as East 17, an Elvis impersonator and four ex-members of Bucks Fizz. Unfortunately, however, several acts pulled out when they realised what the concert was in aid of. A spokesman for the event admitted that “None of the bands want to appear onstage with Nigel Farage”. It was ultimately cancelled.

2 The Brexit laureate

To mark Ukip’s final press conference of the campaign, MEP Steven Woolfe solemnly read aloud a poem he’d written about how he would feel if Britain stayed in the EU. “England’s beaten heart, destroyed from within/ By its own kith and kin,” he intoned, his voice choked with emotion. “Freeborn and men and women cry/ ‘Why, oh why, oh why, oh why?’”